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He also packed six braised eggs, a favorite snack that he calls his “trail rations.”

In Sudan, Yousuf said smugglers left his group for a month in the desert enduring searing hot days and bitter cold nights surviving on meagre rations of rice and contaminated water.

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“We were born in the Second World War, 1944 and we had rations — we were living on suet and you were living on steak here,” Daltrey said in his own interview.

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In the platypus attendant's logbook, the interns found evidence that his rations en route were being decreased as some of the worms began to perish.

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"Amidst severe hunger and famine-like conditions, many families tell us they are now too weak to compete for food rations," the groups said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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